Just Married #81

Charlton's Just Married #81 from 1971 packs in plenty of romantic drama, with this eye-catching cover teasing three separate stories — including the wonderfully titled "I Married a Monster!" Cover art by Don Sherwood, Don Perlin, and Domingo Mandrafina (with inks by Perlin, Mandrafina, and Charles Nicholas) delivers a collage of vignettes: a woman being swept off her feet, a tender embrace between a dark-haired couple, a brooding young man with a bouquet of flowers, and shadowy figures lurking in the background. For fans of 1971 romance comics, this issue offers a satisfying mix of heartache, passion, and just a hint of the dramatic unexpected.